WEBVTT 1 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.919 This is the other side of Midnight. 2 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:10.199 They're running a strange program, y'all with Walter Sterling. 3 00:00:15.519 --> 00:00:20.280 Here's the story of a radio executive who met with 4 00:00:20.679 --> 00:00:23.039 enormous success. 5 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:28.199 His head overflowed with brilliant ideas and he really knew 6 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:34.200 how to address but his bosses, we're all idiots, and 7 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:36.679 all his brilliant was for not. 8 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:42.000 So he had to set up on his own like 9 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:43.799 some disgraced cosmonauts. 10 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:47.880 And now Volter's back on. 11 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:51.679 The radio sharing his brilliant insights. 12 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:58.079 And that's why we call this program the Other Side 13 00:00:58.320 --> 00:00:59.159 of Midnight. 14 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:03.399 The sign the other side. 15 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:07.159 It's me other side. 16 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:12.280 Star with Walter Sterling. 17 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:14.920 What did you do? 18 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:18.840 What did you do wrong that you are listening to 19 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:22.480 this show at this time? Think about the decisions you 20 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:25.400 made in your life. You didn't go to the problem 21 00:01:25.439 --> 00:01:29.920 with him, and you should have. You bought a Chrysler 22 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:32.680 rather than the Jaguar even though they were the same price, 23 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:35.760 and you wore the wrong shoes to that job interview. 24 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.200 All of those things add up to you being here 25 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:41.680 tonight with me Walter Sterling. 26 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:42.120 Oh what? 27 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:47.480 And doctor Sky, Doctor Sky? Now, the reason doctor Sky 28 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:49.920 is on with us is because he needs a cover. 29 00:01:50.719 --> 00:01:53.640 He's deep in the woods of the Southwest, as many 30 00:01:54.120 --> 00:01:59.239 witness protection people are. His name changes fairly regularly, and 31 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.840 doctor Sky spells his name with an E at the end, 32 00:02:01.879 --> 00:02:05.799 yet he's not Polish. 33 00:02:06.239 --> 00:02:07.959 Good morning, Walter, doctor Sky. 34 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:12.800 You're on today because there are three enormous astronomical events. 35 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:17.120 Doctor Skuy is a weekend host, which is in radio 36 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.000 perjorative term, but in fact, Casey Casem was a weekend host, 37 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:23.080 and I think you should view yourself in the same 38 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.439 league with Casey Kaseum, another weekend host. 39 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:27.919 Doctor Sky, Well. 40 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:29.479 Thank you very much. Good to be with you, Walter. 41 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.199 A lot of activity is we're going to be talking. 42 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:34.719 He earned six million dollars a year at ABC, just 43 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.240 to have a point of reference at your next negotiation 44 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:41.520 with the Katstites. Now, yeah, but maybe they'll throw in 45 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:45.919 coupons and beans, you know, Goya beans, the whole package deal, 46 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:50.879 gift package of Goya beans. Now listen, thank you, you're 47 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:51.639 darn right you do. 48 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:52.560 Now listen. 49 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:56.719 There are three major celestial events, and doctor Sky is 50 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:01.680 an expert on obviously sky things, and he's brilliant at it. 51 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:03.800 He gets the best guests about it. I hope you 52 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.840 listen to him on the weekends because you won't have 53 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:09.639 a better time. But something amazing happened on the Moon 54 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:14.280 yesterday and right now if you look up, there's spectacular 55 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.240 gifts from the universe. So please let's start on the moon, 56 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:18.759 doctors guy, go ahead. 57 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:19.319 Yes, Walter. 58 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:21.680 As we mentioned before, and we had the other interview 59 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.759 earlier in the week, we were all expecting big things, 60 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.240 the big boom on the Moon. And in case people 61 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:29.759 are just tuning in and never heard about this, SpaceX 62 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:33.919 intentionally had a large booster the upper stage of what 63 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.080 they call it the alpha stage. It's about forty five 64 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.520 feet long by twelve feet wide. And though it's history 65 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.960 right now, there was a impact with that particular body 66 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:47.719 at around two thirty five am Eastern day lifetime, a 67 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.719 day ago. I was out with the big telescope, and 68 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.400 many people who have telescopes understand that you really need 69 00:03:53.439 --> 00:03:55.840 to set these things up ahead of time. I was 70 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.360 looking at the Moon at exactly the moment here in 71 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.439 these very horrible temperatures that we're having in the southwestern 72 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:05.560 in Phoenix through partial monsoon clouds. So the report I 73 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.080 can give you on the other side of midnight is 74 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:11.800 I saw nothing how about that for honesty. But it's 75 00:04:11.800 --> 00:04:14.400 interesting because I doubted from the beginning that you would 76 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.040 see any kind of a flare, and the media was 77 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.199 talking about the possibility of this, and we're now confirming 78 00:04:20.639 --> 00:04:22.839 nothing was actually seen. Now I have people that have 79 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:24.759 emailed me things and they say, look, I have an 80 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:27.879 image from another telescope, and look at this bump doctor 81 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:30.160 Sky on the side edge of the moon, exactly where 82 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:32.680 the impact is. And I can tell you, Walter in 83 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:35.600 the audience, from observing the moon for so long, there 84 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.240 is a bump where there was a bump on the 85 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:39.079 edge of the moon. And what we were seeing is 86 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:42.079 a very rare sight. It's a mountain region on the 87 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.120 left edge of the moon that we rarely never get 88 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.680 to see. It's called the Rook Mountains, and it's part 89 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.319 of a basin called the Oriental the orient pison. Now, 90 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:53.959 if you hold your hand and have your fingers straight up, 91 00:04:53.959 --> 00:04:56.439 and don't do this with your driving. If you hold 92 00:04:56.439 --> 00:04:58.160 that hand and just tilt it a little to the 93 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.519 left and the right, the moon occasionally gives us a 94 00:05:01.600 --> 00:05:04.399 little bit further view, either view of east or west 95 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:07.040 of the moon. So that's what people were seeing. So 96 00:05:07.199 --> 00:05:11.439 no confirmed, you know, explosive material from the Moon, no ejecta. 97 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:15.160 But yet there's a spacecraft called Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that's 98 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:17.879 actually going to look and see the exact location where 99 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.800 this impact occurred and show us. The whole purpose was 100 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.279 to see what happens when a body like that is 101 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:27.279 intentionally smashed into the Moon, what sized craters are created. 102 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:29.879 So the best is yet to come from the Lunar 103 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:30.879 Reconnaissance Orbiter. 104 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.639 Now, doctor skuy, you were looking with a high powered 105 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.800 telescope and very trained eye at the Moon at the 106 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:39.360 exact spot where the rockets should have hit. 107 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:40.120 Is that right? 108 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:41.680 That is absolutely correct? 109 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:42.680 And you saw nothing. 110 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:44.959 I saw nothing, and a lot of other people. They 111 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.720 were tremendous welter amounts on the web, and many people 112 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.319 may have watched this on YouTube. They had all these 113 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.160 live feeds from around the world. Now, there's a few 114 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:55.639 images that I saw that show something like that. I 115 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:57.680 don't know if somebody photoshopped it or what have you. 116 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.519 Why would they do such a thing like that right 117 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.639 where there was some sort of a little gas image 118 00:06:02.839 --> 00:06:06.160 on the edge of the Moon. But ninety nine percent 119 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:07.680 of the things that I've been looking at for the 120 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:11.639 last twenty four hours, no visible material. But some of 121 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.120 the giant telescopes waltered down in Chile. They claim that 122 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.879 they have some image, not images, but they take the 123 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.160 spectroscope and they can actually put it ud the edge 124 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:22.439 of the Moon and it can give us an example 125 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:24.800 of what chemical elements might have been around in the 126 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:28.000 atmosphere of the Moon, which hardly has an atmosphere. And 127 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.000 they claimed there might be something, but no visible flash, 128 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:33.920 nothing that we could see. But it goes back to 129 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.600 Canterbury Monks. If we go back in time, there were 130 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:41.399 claims back in around eleven seventy eight that they'd wrote 131 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.319 in their most prosaic way. Of course, in the early days, 132 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.959 some fiery dragon appeared on the edge of the Moon. 133 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:50.319 And if that's possible, I mean, if that was what 134 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:53.480 they saw Walter, there have been other sightings in the 135 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.079 past and history. Now, if that was true, they didn't 136 00:06:56.079 --> 00:07:00.680 have telescopes. But can you imagine asteroidal bodies slamming into 137 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.160 the Moon would have created such a thing like that. 138 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.720 But lucky for us, we haven't seen anything from the 139 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:08.360 outer parts of the Solar system. This was just a 140 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:09.199 man made rocket. 141 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.839 Now, is it possible that you, with your trained eye 142 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.360 and your excellent telescope and your minimal ambient light because 143 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:22.000 of where you are secretly, is it possible that it 144 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.800 didn't happen at all, that this was a story. 145 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.120 It's possible, Walter, But I think watching the thing that 146 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.279 gives it gives credence to the whole story is we're 147 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:35.360 actually watching live feeds from the three letter agencies, the 148 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.600 four letter agencies like NASA, and they're actually showing the 149 00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:41.560 data from what they have of the countdown to this. 150 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.839 They're showing where it should be, where it impacted. I 151 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:47.639 believe it did happen, but then again, you never know. 152 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:49.560 But why would they want to trick us? Right, Walter? 153 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:52.560 Think about that. That's amazing. We've been tricked before, but 154 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:56.199 maybe not in this case. So no visible sighting of 155 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.839 the space ex rocket booster at this point in time. 156 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:01.839 And the reason that people are wondering, why are they 157 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:05.000 even smashing something into the moon. Yes, we're looking. I 158 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.040 know this sounds so ridiculous. Why are we doing this 159 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.680 to destroy the moon and put space junk if we 160 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:13.480 have enough space jung in orbit? The simple answer, and 161 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:15.680 it's really complicated. If you get to go deep into it. 162 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.160 We want to know when we do manned habitation. We 163 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.720 mentioned this last time. The south pole of the moon 164 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:23.560 has the water ice. This is a great place to look. 165 00:08:23.560 --> 00:08:26.199 But the reason they're doing this at the south pole 166 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:30.079 of the moon is the sun never rises deep inside 167 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.039 those craters. So what you'd have to do is you 168 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:34.840 could set up permanent solar stations up on the top 169 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.000 of the mountain, let's say, or the ridge or the mesa, 170 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.240 and you could be in permanent darkness because the moon 171 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:42.840 every time. If you and I went to the moon 172 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:46.200 right now with the listeners, a lunar day is fourteen 173 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:49.240 earth days, so you'd see the sun rising along the 174 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:51.600 lunar limb and you'd have to watch it for fourteen 175 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.360 days before it's set, and a lunar night is fourteen days. 176 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:58.720 So well, let's hope they want to know what happens 177 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.360 when these objects strike the moon, because who knows. You 178 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:04.440 don't want to be in a lunar habitat and all 179 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.440 of a sudden something comes down out of the sky. 180 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:10.039 Because remember there's no sounds in space, it would be boom. 181 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:13.480 And they want to understand what size objects come in 182 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.960 to create craters and that's a whole nother long story 183 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:18.440 that we could talk about some other time. 184 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:25.519 I'm sure doctor Sky brilliant expert on celestial events. Tonight, 185 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:28.759 my daughters are at the outer Banks of North Carolina 186 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:32.000 and they have sent me video of the sky because 187 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:34.679 they said, we see shooting stars. We see shooting stars? 188 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:36.240 Are they what are they seeing? 189 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:36.879 Doctor Sky? 190 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.600 Well, Walter, this is the time of the year in 191 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:41.240 the best meteor show. And I have to be careful 192 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:43.120 because they've done this for so many years, and every 193 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:45.000 time I tell people, Wow, it's going to be a 194 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:47.879 really great event, the big meteor show. What they're probably 195 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:51.159 looking at, the Percied meteor shower, Walter, is one of 196 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:53.840 the best of the year, comes from a constellation Percys. 197 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.720 If we go back into the whole story, he's the 198 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.600 guy that apparently is not supposed to look at Medusa 199 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:03.159 from a he does something nasty. He cuts her head 200 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.799 off and in the mythological way. That's another story. But 201 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.200 this meteor shower called the Persians is starting to ramp up, 202 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:11.879 and it peaks on the evening of the twelfth and 203 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:15.960 thirteenth of this month. Because the moon will cooperate, it'll 204 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:18.600 be at new phase on the twelfth. So if you 205 00:10:18.639 --> 00:10:20.919 have an opportunity to get out and there's no clouds, 206 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:24.879 those nights the twelfth into the thirteenth and the thirteenth 207 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:27.039 into the fourteenth might be best. Look in the northeast 208 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:31.039 sky after midnight. Walter, I've had the luxury of observing 209 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:33.000 the shower for over forty years, and I'll tell you, 210 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.960 sometimes the sky just pours forth with amazing numbers of meteors, 211 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:40.840 and sometimes they don't do much at all. And a 212 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:44.039 great comet observer, a good friend of ours here in Arizona, gentlemen, 213 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:47.399 that many people in the astronomy world may know, David Levy. 214 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.440 He said something, because all these meteors, or as I say, 215 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:53.840 these little particles, and no kidding, they're about the size 216 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.519 of my least favorite cereal, grape nuts, these little tiny 217 00:10:56.559 --> 00:10:59.240 pellet sized objects that you'd see as cereal. That's about 218 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:03.279 the size of this. All these meteors come from comets. 219 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:06.600 So David Leevy said something very interesting. He said, comets 220 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:09.559 are like cats. And I said to him, well, how's that. Well, 221 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.720 they said, they both have tails and they do exactly 222 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.039 what they want to do. So your daughters are looking 223 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:20.200 at more than likely. And I hope everybody in the 224 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:23.519 vast audience of the station all over the Earth, this 225 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:27.080 is amazing and the danger is part of this danger danger. 226 00:11:27.519 --> 00:11:30.799 Here's something interesting. They all come from comets, and this 227 00:11:30.840 --> 00:11:33.360 particular shower is known to come from a comet cold 228 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:37.080 comet Swift Tuttel discovered in the late eighteen hundreds. It's 229 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:39.080 been pumping out. To think of it like the exhaust 230 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.080 of a vehicle, a gas powered car, with all the 231 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:45.200 carbon monoxide and particles coming out. When these comets, comet 232 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.840 orbits intersect the Earth, we collide with that. So every 233 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:51.039 year around this time we get a visibility. But here's 234 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:54.279 a weird fact of any object in the Solar System 235 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:58.000 that could be dangerous to the Earth. It's the nucleus 236 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:00.559 of this comet swift Tunnel. Now, not to well arm people, 237 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:04.200 it's said that maybe hundreds or even a thousand years 238 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:07.840 from now, the orbital intercession of the nucleus of this comet, 239 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.559 which could be twenty miles across. Could you imagine something 240 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:14.320 like that. No comets go super fast, So they're saying 241 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:17.080 that that object when you see the little shooting stars, 242 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:21.200 count your blessings. Because that's an object that continues to 243 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:24.600 pump material out and it's one Walter, of what millions 244 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:27.399 of comets. Isn't it amazing that the Earth hasn't been 245 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.720 hit and that's hopefully something that doesn't happen. And quite 246 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:31.639 a long time. 247 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.000 Now, Doctor Sky. There was a third item we were 248 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:34.759 going to talk about. 249 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:40.039 Sure there's an eclipse again, people say eclipses. This one's 250 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.480 another total solar eclipse. And Walter, have you ever seen 251 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:44.240 a total solar eclipse? This is interesting? 252 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:47.519 I want to ask you total solar eclipse. I don't 253 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.240 think so well. 254 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.320 This is something that everybody and I don't work with 255 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.480 any travel agents, but I'll tell you something. I've been 256 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.559 addicted to this. I've seen seven of these and you 257 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:58.879 travel all over the world. Oh this is amazing because 258 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.879 if you want to learn about what the beauty of 259 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.000 nature really is, you have to go to one of these. 260 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.559 Here's the next one, August twelfth. Next week. People in Spain, 261 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.720 the entire nation. They get the after part of where 262 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.759 the shadow is racing across the Earth. 263 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:14.759 It goes fast. 264 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.039 So what happens at a total solar eclipse? The moon 265 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:20.320 will be new, meaning it's invisible to us, So it's 266 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.000 going to move across the disk of the Sun. And 267 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:26.799 however close the Moon is indicates and however close we are, 268 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:30.519 you know, with the moon, total eclipses can occur best. 269 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.480 They can only occur when the Moon is closest to 270 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:34.919 the Earth, so what covers the Sun up. So lucky 271 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:37.919 people in that area of Spain will get to see 272 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.639 an eclipse that probably lasts only about maybe two and 273 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:44.480 a half minutes. But if you really want a big one, 274 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:48.120 here we go. August two, twenty twenty seven. Walter is 275 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:51.120 probably the best eclipse for all of us in our lifetimes. 276 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.000 If you were going to go deep into Egypt, a 277 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.720 place called luxor the Valley of the Gods, the place 278 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:00.320 with pyramids, you would see a totally eclipse Walter over 279 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:04.879 six minutes, which is unheard of. That will be quite spectacular. 280 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:06.519 Are you going to go do that? Are you going 281 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:07.120 to go there? 282 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:10.600 No, it's a little out of my moment of travels 283 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:13.559 because I'm a little concerned about that, and not not 284 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.000 because of any terrorist threats or anything. Who knows, but 285 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.799 there was an incident that happened there a long time ago. 286 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:20.120 If people look at it, I don't want to scare 287 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.799 people not to go to Luxor. But the point is 288 00:14:23.120 --> 00:14:25.840 right now, these people who love eclipses, and I'm one 289 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:27.399 of them, and many listeners. 290 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:28.159 Out there I'm sure are too. 291 00:14:29.039 --> 00:14:31.159 They book these things year things. 292 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:32.159 Is that right? 293 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:35.080 Oh, oh my gosh, Hey, Doctor Sky, this was a 294 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:39.120 great update. It's twenty past the hour time, terrific. Always 295 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:41.759 an honor to have you on the show. I will 296 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.600 promote your weekend program heavily, but I don't want it 297 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.679 to be minimized by the word weekend. This is a 298 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:51.840 great radio show from a spectacular broadcaster, Doctor Sky, visiting 299 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.559 on the other side of Midnight from the Red Apple 300 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:55.919 Audio Networks. 301 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:13.159 The others signed Midnight with Ter It's the other side 302 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:15.360 of Midnight with Walter Sterling. 303 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:24.039 Everybody swinging, everybody's singing. 304 00:15:25.279 --> 00:15:30.840 You're with Walter Sterling on the other side of Midnight. 305 00:15:32.840 --> 00:15:37.639 I have asked my current wife and my friends and you, 306 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:43.519 why are we going to Mars? And I've asked, and 307 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.759 now with what Doctor Sky said, I'm asking why are 308 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.399 we going to build habitats on the moon. Most of 309 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:54.799 Pennsylvania has no inhabitants. Between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. It's the 310 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:58.600 Pennsylvania wild, there's nothing there. Can't we build one of 311 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:00.960 those dome things where you could live under it in 312 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:04.240 the middle of Pennsylvania where people are playing the theme 313 00:16:04.240 --> 00:16:07.279 from Deliverance twenty four hours a day, seven days a 314 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:14.000 week without interruption. I'm not kidding. I can't imagine going 315 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:17.399 to the Moon to live, and I certainly can't imagine 316 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:21.320 going to Mars to live with the guarantee you will 317 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:25.879 not come back. There's no possibility that you're gonna come back. 318 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:29.440 I'm gonna get this. I'm gonna fly to a desert 319 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:33.240 worse than the Sahara and the Mohave. I'm going to 320 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:41.679 take air a rocket to Death Valley, otherwise known as Mars. 321 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:46.320 I'm supposed to set up a glass special effects tent. 322 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:51.159 It looks like a big dome, right, and Matt Damon's 323 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:53.440 supposed to be there to save me from the monsters 324 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:58.720 and live there the rest of my life. And they say, well, 325 00:16:58.919 --> 00:17:02.039 we're going to terror form. We are nowhere near being 326 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.480 able to terraform anything. Think about your You know what 327 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:09.200 terraforming is. It's where they reinhabit a planet with plants 328 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:13.640 and then you go live there. Now, how's your garden 329 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:16.880 in front of your house, in your TV room. How's 330 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:20.920 that garden going? Imagine trying to set up a garden 331 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.440 on a beyond desert planet, one that was probably destroyed 332 00:17:25.480 --> 00:17:30.440 by an atomic war one hundred million years ago. Evidence 333 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.599 on Mars that there was an atomic war. There are 334 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:36.519 there's elements in the grounds of Mars that only exist 335 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:41.359 as a result of an atomic reaction. Why would you go? 336 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:43.920 Here's the phone number. Let's talk about this. This is 337 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.799 late night radio. It's what the sort of thing we're 338 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.559 supposed to be talking about. Eight hundred eighty four eight 339 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:51.799 nine two two two. Eight hundred eight four eight nine 340 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:54.839 two two two. And I think it's fair to point 341 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:58.960 out at twenty five past the hour with Pete that 342 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:01.839 my voice is particular good tonight, and that's a rare 343 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:05.400 and random event. But I've found that the key difference 344 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.880 is between voice being good and voice not being good 345 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:12.039 is that I took a nap. I need to take 346 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.559 a nap about two hours before air, and then I'm good. 347 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:19.839 I could be on the air for eighteen hours straight. Yes, 348 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.720 But would you go to Mars? Would you give me 349 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:26.279 a reason that you would go live on Mars? I 350 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:28.240 don't need a yes or no. That's boring radio. But 351 00:18:28.279 --> 00:18:30.480 I'd like to hear a reason. Because of all the 352 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.359 people who have said they're signed up to go to Mars, 353 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:35.640 they're signed up to live on Mars. They're gonna go 354 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.720 with Matt Damon to Mars the Martian, I've never heard 355 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:43.920 one of them say. And this is why. My first 356 00:18:43.920 --> 00:18:47.039 thought was that they have too many children, or that 357 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:51.799 they have an unhappy marriage where they bought a Dodge 358 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.000 something like that, or they're tired of living in minivans. 359 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:57.480 They figured they'd like one of those cool lost in 360 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:01.920 space vans which existed till recently, and then somebody found 361 00:19:01.960 --> 00:19:07.119 it on a backlot in Hollywood and has restored it. Oh, 362 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:12.680 Strange New Worlds Star Trek, Strange New Worlds, that's the 363 00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:17.680 best Star Trek series in years. Those earlier ones Star 364 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:22.279 Trek Discovery ort terrible, just and Picard that was very nice. 365 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.480 So it was like watching in PRS, except in slower speed. 366 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:32.079 And on the latest episode of Strange New Worlds, a 367 00:19:32.240 --> 00:19:35.440 total easter egg was put in there. One of the 368 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:38.480 characters said, Okay, I give one of my sons when 369 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:39.920 I go away for a long time. I always try 370 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:42.799 to get him a toy, and he held up the toy. 371 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:45.640 The toy is about two inches high. It was a 372 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:50.279 plastic representation of the Lost in Space robot. It was 373 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:54.599 the Lost in Space robot appearing on Star Trek Strange 374 00:19:54.680 --> 00:20:01.039 New Worlds. There's the question would you go go to Mars? 375 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.119 Would you go live in the moon? Doctor Sky just 376 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.079 explained that one of the reasons they're crashing giant rockets 377 00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:10.640 into the Moon was to see the effect of the craters. 378 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:14.400 What's going on with the craters during the day. The 379 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:18.319 sun only hits the crater about halfway. That was news. 380 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:20.000 I didn't know that. Did you know that? No, you 381 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:23.359 didn't know that. And it only hits the crater about halfway. 382 00:20:25.279 --> 00:20:28.920 The rocket is supposed to find out more information about 383 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:31.559 the impact of the sun, where it does hit, and 384 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:33.839 does it hit and all sorts of things that English 385 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:36.960 majors don't understand. But I don't get it. 386 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:37.400 It's like. 387 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:44.680 Many of the deserts on Earth. Our horrible places to live. 388 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:48.240 The Pennsylvania Wild's horrible place to live. Why don't we 389 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.160 settle there first? Why don't we put our New York, 390 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:56.920 New Jersey, Missouri colonnades into the middle of Pennsylvania. Why 391 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.960 don't we put them in the Sahara in the Mahave day. 392 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:04.839 Let's first practice baby steps. Let's first practice living in 393 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:08.920 miserable places. Remember a few years ago a bunch of 394 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:12.079 do gooders set up a what was the name of 395 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.920 that place, set up a dome community where they had 396 00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:21.880 astrodomes or they had domes, and they went and lived them, 397 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:24.759 and they were sustainable. They had to self sustain, they 398 00:21:24.799 --> 00:21:28.039 had to grow food, live in them. There was water 399 00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:31.359 in them. There were like seven or eight people in 400 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:35.599 very earnest outfits trying to make a go of it 401 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:40.519